The Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Uses Its Technology to Support State and Worldwide Election Coverage
Posted on: Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 18:00 CST
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission (OET), a local state agency, used its fiber optic and satellite technology to support the state's communication needs during Election 2004. OET's infrastructure allowed local state organizations to send and receive news feeds from commercial and public television stations throughout Ohio. OET's uplink capacity provided access to state and worldwide election coverage.
During Election 2004, OET used its technology to:
-- Broadcast live interviews with the Secretary of State and other Ohio
government officials about the impact of Election 2004 on Ohio and the
nation.
-- Feed live, statewide, off-air television programming for the Secretary
of State's Office to monitor voting results throughout Ohio.
-- Provide satellite uplinks to report live news events from the Ohio
Statehouse to worldwide media outlets, including HNK Japan News
Service, CNN and FOX News -- to name a few.
-- Originate satellite uplinks for local PBS station WOSU-TV 34
( http://www.wosu.org/ ) to provide access to live interviews with law
professors from The Ohio State University to discuss the election.
All of these feeds and uplinks are made possible by OET's statewide fiber optic cable network, which provides PBS and educational programming to all public television stations, public radio stations and radio reading services in Ohio.
ABOUT OET
The Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission (OET) was formed by the Ohio General Assembly in 1961 to foster the growth and development of public telecommunications in Ohio and to provide all Ohio citizens with access to the services provided by public stations. Today, the OET Network links Ohio's 12 public television stations, 34 public radio stations and nine radio reading services in a statewide system and provides grants to those stations to subsidize operations and programming.
Through eight educational technology departments and foundations, OET supplies the 12 public television stations with instructional programming (ITV) broadcast via OET's fiber optic interconnection system to all Ohio schools. OET also supports Ohio's Telephone Reader, which allows print- handicapped users to scan local newspapers to listen to articles via touch- tone phone. Learn more at http://www.oet.edu/ .
Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission
CONTACT: Karen Del Toro of OET, +1-614-644-3095, ordeltoro@oet.state.oh.us
Web site: http://www.wosu.org/http://www.oet.edu/
Source: PRNewswire
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Posted by G Zinn on 08/13/2008, 00:57 I'm responding to a very old article, but I'd like someone to know that the URL www.oet.edu is "dead"---at least from my experience of entering it directly and via Google. I'd be interested in what the OET does. I got the first link from the Cleveland Sight Center web page. |
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